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TweetBot Plants Stake on the iPhone
I have tried lots of Twitter applications for the iPhone although not Twitter’s own iPhone application. So far, the standard has been TweetDeck because it’s easy to use and provides a nice snapshot of all conversations. If Tweetdeck has any limitations, it is small things such as the ability to edit retweets. But all in [...]
Twitter Suspends UberTwitter
It looks like the first salvo in the “battle” between Twitter and the developer ecosystem has been hired. According to an e-mail from Twitter, it has suspended UberTwitter for violating its policies. Although it did not specify the violations, Twitter said that “we ask applications that work with Twitter to abide by a simple set [...]
Why Didn’t Twitter Buy TweetDeck?
One of the games that Twitter-watchers like playing is creating lists of the company’s potential acquisitions now that it has oodles of venture capital cash sitting in a bank. The lists includes companies such as TweetDeck, TwitPic, TwitVid, Seesmic and HootSuite. Well, we can cross TweetDeck off the list now that it has been purchased [...]
Muck Rack: Journalists on Twitter
There are lots of journalists on Twitter but how do you quickly find them? The answer is Muck Rack, which provides a user-friendly way to see the tweets of journalists in a variety of topics. By logging into Muck Rack using your Twitter information, you can reply to a particular journalist within Muck Rack, as [...]
GroupTweet: Private Groups Within Twitter
One of the fascinating things about Twitter is how the API is being embraced by thousands of companies in different and creative ways. One service that caught my attention recently was GroupTweet, which makes it possible to create private groups to use Twitter as a platform to communication and share information using private messages. GroupTweet’s approach [...]
ManageFlitter: Manage Your Twitter Followers